Want to share photos of your dinner? Use Instagram. Want to share every small thought of your mind in 140 characters or less? Twitter. Want to release your creative side in the space of 6 seconds? Vine is for you. But what if you’re an aspiring musician, producer, or just a general fan of music, both mainstream and undiscovered? Then you’ll be hard pushed to find a better platform than SoundCloud to meet your needs. Founded in 2007 in Berlin by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is an online music distribution and sharing platform. Where artists set up a profile, and upload their sounds. The profile appearance is clean and simple (not like MySpace back in the
One problem a lot of people have when it comes to music, is that they become very narrow minded, and only listen to perhaps one or two genres, sometimes even just one or two artists! SoundCloud can not only help artists grow their fanbase, but it can help fans in discovering new music. When you follow an artist, you are shown similar artists that SoundCloud think you may enjoy listening to, or artists who are followed by people that also follow the artists you like.
A cool feature of SoundCloud is that you can put comments in songs at certain points, for example, if at 1:42 in a dubstep song, there is a filthy bass drop, you can comment at 1:42 “Filthy drop man!!”.
